Cara Waterfall
Poet & Mentor | Building Toward Gate-Free Literary Futures
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DEW Scholarship Fund - Year Two Press Kit - Google Drive
DEW Scholarship Fund - Year Two Press Kit - Google Drive
Grant Lab #3: Clarity & Translation
Grant Lab #3: Clarity & Translation
Part of a five-part Grant Lab series.
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The Donald E. Waterfall Scholarship Fund: Apply now!
The Donald E. Waterfall Scholarship Fund: Apply now!
Applications open April 29, 2026!
GRANT LAB
Grant Lab #2: URGENCY: Why Now? - Archipel | Cara Waterfall
Grant Lab #2: URGENCY: Why Now? - Archipel | Cara Waterfall
On timing, stakes and consequence.
Grant Lab #1: Who You Are is Not the Problem
Grant Lab #1: Who You Are is Not the Problem
The first in a series.
The Lost Stations
The Lost Stations — I&R
The Lost Stations — I&R
Ink & Ribbon Press is a nonprofit poetry publisher dedicated to craft, discovery, and the permanence of the printed word. Based on Bainbridge Island, WA.
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Subscribe to Archipel | Cara Waterfall
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A Teacher Lives On: The Donald E. Waterfall Scholarship Fund - Department of Philosophy - University of Toronto
A Teacher Lives On: The Donald E. Waterfall Scholarship Fund - Department of Philosophy - University of Toronto
How best to honour the legacy of a life-long teacher and critical thinker? This was the decision Cara Waterfall, a poet and mentor, had to make after the death of her father, Donald E. Waterfall (1943–2021). The elder Waterfall was an alumnus of and, later, sessional instructor in the Department ... Read More
Buymeacoffee: A small gift fuels a poet’s year.
Buymeacoffee: A small gift fuels a poet’s year.
Cara Waterfall - Poet, Storyteller and Mentor
Cara Waterfall - Poet, Storyteller and Mentor
Archipel Substack Interviews
Diversifying Voices Is Not the Same as Diversifying Structures
Diversifying Voices Is Not the Same as Diversifying Structures
The poetry canon has widened. The machinery of legitimacy feels harder to change.
🌊 Currents Prompt #1 — Gbaka Grammar
🌊 Currents Prompt #1 — Gbaka Grammar
A writing prompt from Abidjan’s rolling archives: slogans, codes, and road-borne syntax on the city’s shared minibuses.
I'm At My First Writing Residency...
I'm At My First Writing Residency...
....and it's at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity!
Sasquatch Nights: A Banff Fairytale
Sasquatch Nights: A Banff Fairytale
🌊 What Happens When We Ask a Living Thing to Stand Still?
🌊 What Happens When We Ask a Living Thing to Stand Still?
🌊 Prompt #4: Instructions for Becoming Weather
🌊 Prompt #4: Instructions for Becoming Weather
🌊 Prompt #5: Operating Manual for Systems that Don't Wait
🌊 Prompt #5: Operating Manual for Systems that Don't Wait
Building Gate-Free Literary Futures
Building Gate-Free Literary Futures
A Lifetime Ivoirian Driver's License
A Lifetime Ivoirian Driver's License
🌊 #33: Stephen Ókólí — A Vocabulary for Remembering
🌊 #33: Stephen Ókólí — A Vocabulary for Remembering
From the Archipel Orbit: February Frequencies
From the Archipel Orbit: February Frequencies
🌊 Prompt #3: Writing from Inside the Circle
🌊 Prompt #3: Writing from Inside the Circle
#32: Sloan Asakura - Archipel | Cara Waterfall
#32: Sloan Asakura - Archipel | Cara Waterfall
In Praise of Slowness - Archipel | Cara Waterfall
In Praise of Slowness - Archipel | Cara Waterfall
🌊 #31 Victor Unachukwu - The Poet as Archivist
🌊 #31 Victor Unachukwu - The Poet as Archivist
The Elephant is Back in the Room
The Elephant is Back in the Room
#30: Elena Sénéchal-Becker: On Building the Worlds We Need
#30: Elena Sénéchal-Becker: On Building the Worlds We Need
🕯️The Small Work of Staying - Archipel | Cara Waterfall
🕯️The Small Work of Staying - Archipel | Cara Waterfall
🌊 Prompt #2: The Syllabus is Flammable
🌊 Prompt #2: The Syllabus is Flammable
🌊 Archipel Alumni #2: October Currents
🌊 Archipel Alumni #2: October Currents
🌊 Nouchi 101: Origins of A Shapeshifting Tongue
🌊 Nouchi 101: Origins of A Shapeshifting Tongue
Learning at Altitude - Archipel | Cara Waterfall
Learning at Altitude - Archipel | Cara Waterfall
#27: Faith, Memory, Fire: A Conversation with Adesiyan Oluwapelumi
#27: Faith, Memory, Fire: A Conversation with Adesiyan Oluwapelumi
🌊 #29: Transliterating the Subconscious: A Conversation with Pamilerin Jacob
🌊 #29: Transliterating the Subconscious: A Conversation with Pamilerin Jacob
#26: Love, Loss & the Pages We Keep: A Conversation with Elizabeth Jaeger
#26: Love, Loss & the Pages We Keep: A Conversation with Elizabeth Jaeger
#25: Savannah Cooper on Faith, Loss & Reclamation
#25: Savannah Cooper on Faith, Loss & Reclamation
SEPT 2025: La Rentrée, Scholarship News, an Author Interview & A New Poetry Column
SEPT 2025: La Rentrée, Scholarship News, an Author Interview & A New Poetry Column
🌊 The Imagination isn't Neutral: 5 Lessons from The Racial Imaginary
🌊 The Imagination isn't Neutral: 5 Lessons from The Racial Imaginary
#28: Joel Oyèlékè: Faith, Form & the Long Apprenticeship
#28: Joel Oyèlékè: Faith, Form & the Long Apprenticeship
#24: A Conversation with Elena Barcia
#24: A Conversation with Elena Barcia
Archipel Alumni: Unveiling Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi's Chapbook "Uncensored Snapshots"
Archipel Alumni: Unveiling Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi's Chapbook "Uncensored Snapshots"
#23: A Conversation with Michael Imossan
#23: A Conversation with Michael Imossan
Applications for the Donald E. Waterfall Scholarship Fund are open!
Applications for the Donald E. Waterfall Scholarship Fund are open!
#21: An Interview with LeeAnn Pickrell
#21: An Interview with LeeAnn Pickrell
#22: An Interview with Sharmila Nezovic
#22: An Interview with Sharmila Nezovic
#20: An Interview with Franka-Maria Andoh
#20: An Interview with Franka-Maria Andoh
#19: An Interview with Frances Boyle
#19: An Interview with Frances Boyle
18: An Interview with Nancy Christie
18: An Interview with Nancy Christie
#17: An Interview with Kerry Donoghue
#17: An Interview with Kerry Donoghue
#16: An Interview with Yilin Wang
#16: An Interview with Yilin Wang
My End-of-year Reflections & Happy 2025!
My End-of-year Reflections & Happy 2025!
#15: An Interview with Baba Musah Swallah
#15: An Interview with Baba Musah Swallah
#14: An Interview with Virginia Ryan
#14: An Interview with Virginia Ryan
#13: An Interview with Nicholas Tettey Wayo
#13: An Interview with Nicholas Tettey Wayo
#12: An Interview with Itiola Jones
#12: An Interview with Itiola Jones
#11: An Interview with Rose from Lolalli.com
#11: An Interview with Rose from Lolalli.com
#10: An Interview with Laura Gaddis
#10: An Interview with Laura Gaddis
#9: An Interview with Wayde Compton
#9: An Interview with Wayde Compton
#8: An Interview with Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi
#8: An Interview with Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi
#7: An Interview with Kim Fahner
#7: An Interview with Kim Fahner
#6: An Interview with Todd Dillard
#6: An Interview with Todd Dillard
#5: An Interview with Nadine Araksi
#5: An Interview with Nadine Araksi
#4: An Interview with Kevin Spenst
#4: An Interview with Kevin Spenst
#3: An Interview with Stephen Berg
#3: An Interview with Stephen Berg
#2: An Interview with Chelene Knight
#2: An Interview with Chelene Knight
Archipel Substack #1: An Interview with rob mclennan
Archipel Substack #1: An Interview with rob mclennan
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Radiant Wound
Radiant Wound, One Year Later - Archipel | Cara Waterfall
Radiant Wound, One Year Later - Archipel | Cara Waterfall
On reviews, readers, and the people who helped this book travel.
Buy RADIANT WOUND!
Buy RADIANT WOUND!
Ode to the E-Book & Summer Hiatus
Ode to the E-Book & Summer Hiatus
Discovering inspiration through digital libraries & announcing Archipel's summer hiatus
Finding our Wild Selves: A Middle School Poetry Workshop
Finding our Wild Selves: A Middle School Poetry Workshop
How animal metaphors can help young writers discover their voices and explore identity through poetry + a complete 75-minute lesson plan for teachers.
RADIANT WOUND: Try the clickable Poem Map!
RADIANT WOUND: Try the clickable Poem Map!
Radiant Wound Essai #3: My First In-person Book Launch & Poetry Workshop in Abidjan
Radiant Wound Essai #3: My First In-person Book Launch & Poetry Workshop in Abidjan
Poetry Reading & Interactive Workshop: Radiant Wound at American Space, FHB University
Poetry Reading & Interactive Workshop: Radiant Wound at American Space, FHB University
Celebrating Womxn this March!
Celebrating Womxn this March!
Radiant Wound Essai #2: How Journalism Helped Me Write My Poetry Collection
Radiant Wound Essai #2: How Journalism Helped Me Write My Poetry Collection
Radiant Wound Essai #1: The Poetics of Place
Radiant Wound Essai #1: The Poetics of Place
Unboxing My First Poetry Book: Radiant Wound
Unboxing My First Poetry Book: Radiant Wound
Lunch Poems
Lunch Poems
Unsolicited Press: Radiant Wound, my debut poetry collection forthcoming in 2025
Unsolicited Press: Radiant Wound, my debut poetry collection forthcoming in 2025
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Dismantling the Leviathan — Radar
Dismantling the Leviathan — Radar
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